Can You Believe it?
I find all to often people in the “body of Christ” are giving up. I need to mention that I am preaching to the choir when I say this…
Maybe this is because we have spent too much time “wounding our own” in the church and not enough time restoring lives…Now before we get our judgment hats on lets dig a little further on this. After all, we have stated that our blog is about hope, reconciliation, restoration and love without limits…
It seems that the focus in many churches is getting rid of sin in the church. I read in a book that said “if we spend our time getting rid of sin in the church, we will surely see a lot of empty buildings”…We are all sinners in need of a Saviour.
“Life is a process and we have to go through the process to get to the promise” (Graham Cooke). I am still a work in progress, meaning I am still in the process but I am glad to know that God’s hand is still on me. He loves me so much that He has put people around me to speak life over me and my wife Marianne. I am so thankful that He doesn’t write me off. Did you get that? God will never write you off. No matter what. He loves us. And when we call out to Him, He simply picks us up, shakes off the dust and puts us back in the game.
We are all sinners. I am a sinner but God sees me as righteous. I am His delight…ouch. I still have a hard time with that one.
When I was living with my “hidden sin’s” I felt sick, tired and wretched. I was in so much inner turmoil that I felt like there would never be a way out. It was like disease eating away at my very inner core, yet God still delighted in me. Isn’t that hard to fathom? He loves us even when we screw up.
So what is my point with all of this? Well…
I am in a place where I am battling everyday to change my thinking. Change it to believing. Believing that God delights in me. Believing that He doesn’t take His calling away…even if you screw up. Believing that He can bring a much needed breakthrough for my family. Believing that God will give us new dreams and visions…etc.
Ephesians 3:20
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! (The Message)
God knows no earthly barriers or boundaries that will keep Him from fulfilling the best plans and purposes for His children.
We can choose to live our lives in the limitations of our own natural understanding and perceived boundaries, or we can choose to believe what God has promised for us. That He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to His power that is at work within us! Our Father is the biggest, strongest and most wonderful Dad in the universe and He has promised that He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or imagine!
Can you believe it?
Whatever you are going through, know this…You are loved!
Christopher
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